"Don't give me any of that intelligent life crap, just give me something I can blow up."
- Dark Star (1974)
Creator of the award-winning web series, Abnormal Fixation. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
The tenth birthday of cinematic boogeyman Freddy Krueger should have been a big deal to start with, that's for sure. Why? Well, in the ...
-laughs and applauds- Gods, I love that movie. Talking phenomenology with the bomb - beautiful stuff.
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For anyone who doesn't have it, if you look around the video section of AMC's website, they have said film up for your streaming pleasure.
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ReplyDeleteI'm a huge fan of Dark Star too. A terrific space comedy, and those are hard to do (see: Galaxina; The Ice Pirates...). Good to know AMC is showing/streaming Dark Star.
All my best,
JKM